Ascetically Quotes & Sayings

Education is green light to great opportunities — Osunsakin Adewale

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations. - Karen — Debbie Macomber

True worship begins in the heart and manifests in emotions and actions that are signs or evidence that God is with us. — Ron Kenoly

I would catch them fast, eternally, thanks to the properties of my wonderful machine. In my hands I had the power to stop time,or so I fancied. — William Boyd

Soft soft heart, love falls apart, soft soft lips, mine not his, spell it out in the sand, I am just a simple man. Soft soft heart, fly away come back. — Carlene Love

I'll only say this once more. I like you. I've always liked you. It would be wrong for me to come back into your life and act otherwise. — Stephanie Perkins

In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is thinking more of a particular religio-metaphysically influenced disposition, an ascetically (in the penitent and self-denying sense) defined attitude to the world, an unfortunate form of life deferral, focus on the hereafter and quarrel with secular facts — Peter Sloterdijk

She plays with her bracelet. "You guys have been together for like four months, right?" "Uh, yeah." "If you're not comfortable with Matt, then maybe you should move on." I look up. "Who says I'm not comfortable with him?" "Your vagina. — Anonymous

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals. — Jay Griffiths

How often we set this trap for ourselves. I had learned to act as if I were the person I wished to be: an ascetically self-sufficient woman, a woman without needs, a woman immune to disappointment. And I found or urged myself to be attracted to people whom only such a woman should love. — Melissa Febos

That is, my experience is that when the bodymind is strong and healthy - not ascetically starved and despised - it is all the easier to drop it, transcend it, let it go. — Ken Wilber

Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai — Saif Ali Khan

Humor is my default mode. — John Updike

But so long as we are occupied with any other object than God Himself there will be neither rest for the heart nor peace for the mind. But when we receive all that enters our lives as from His hand, then, no matter what may be our circumstances or surroundings - whether in a hovel, a prison, a dungeon, or a martyr's stake - we shall be enabled to say, "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places" (Psa 16:6). But that is the language of faith, not of sight or of sense. — Arthur W. Pink

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good. — Amy Tan

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar. — Rick Renzi

You're a terrible cook. That I'll grant you. You can't hold your liquor, either. And you have questionable taste in men. So no, you're not perfect." His voice sank to a husky whisper, and his gaze dropped to her mouth. "But you're close. Close enough to restore a man's faith in miracles. — Tessa Dare